42 USC § 15991 - Inventory requirement

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title: "42 USC § 15991 - Inventory requirement"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "15991"
section_name: "Inventory requirement"
chapter_number: 149
chapter_name: "NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY AND PROGRAMS"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "COAL"
part_number: "C"
part_name: "Federal Coal Leases"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 109–58, title IV, § 437, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 762.)"
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# § 15991. Inventory requirement

**(a)** **Review of assessments**

**(1)** **In general** The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary, shall review coal assessments and other available data to identify—

**(A)** Federal lands with coal resources that are available for development;

**(B)** the extent and nature of any restrictions on the development of coal resources on Federal lands identified under paragraph (1); and

**(C)** with respect to areas of such lands for which sufficient data exists, resources of compliant coal and supercompliant coal.

**(2)** **Definitions** For purposes of this subsection—

**(A)** the term “compliant coal” means coal that contains not less than 1.0 and not more than 1.2 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu; and

**(B)** the term “supercompliant coal” means coal that contains less than 1.0 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu.

**(b)** **Completion and updating of the inventory** The Secretary—

**(1)** shall complete the inventory under subsection (a) by not later than 2 years after August 8, 2005; and

**(2)** shall update the inventory as the availability of data and developments in technology warrant.

**(c)** **Report** The Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and make publicly available—

**(1)** a report containing the inventory under this section, by not later than 2 years after the effective date of this section; and

**(2)** each update of such inventory.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 109–58, title IV, § 437, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 762.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The effective date of this section, referred to in subsec. (c)(1), probably means the date of enactment of , which enacted this section.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Committee on Resources of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, .

### Short Title

For short title of subtitle D of title IV of , which enacted this part, as the “Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 2005”, see , set out as a note under .